1. It's terrible the way these walnuts are all broken. That one's no good for decorating the top of my cake. I'm going to have to eat it. And that one's no good either. Nor is that one.
2. I've never made a cooked butter icing before. It's beautifully glossy, and the butter browned a little so it has a nutty taste.
3. At last we manage to watch the Christmas episode of Downton -- and very good it was too. Thomas is lucky, Bates is brave, the Earl is merciful, Lady Violet is acerbic, Sir Richard is a cad and Mary is true.
Slow worm, peacock butterfly and striations.
1. A slow worm backs into his burrow, his mild resentful gaze holding ours. 2. Peacock butterfly -- Persian rug colours -- rests open in the...
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1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmi...
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1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...
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1. Oli has written a poem describing how Tunbridge Wells makes him veer between wanting to fall in love and wanting to shoot people. Which i...